infatuation

Noun

Meaning

The act of infatuating; the state of being infatuated; folly; that which infatuates.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

crush puppy love calf love eros amour jones quirk love romance mania enchantment ardor thing desire worship
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Antonyms

repulsion malice loathing detestation opposition hate
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Hypernyms

love object passion passionateness

Related terms

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Phrases with the word

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Examples

He who is infatuated with Man leaves persons out of account so far as that infatuation extends, and floats in an ideal, sacred interest. Man, you see, is not a person, but an ideal, a spook. Max Stirner

Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence. Jim Morrison

There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may. Charlotte Brontë

Faces come and faces go in circular rotation. But something yearns within to grow beyond infatuation. Don McLean

After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun. Eric Allin Cornell

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness. Cyril Connolly

Close letter words and terms

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